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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: The leader who shaped Iran’s defiance

The supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been killed in a joint US-Israeli air strikes on Saturday.

Arbitrary executions, terrorism and repression: Zealot Ayatollah's death was as violent as his reign of terror, writes MARK ALMOND

It is thought that Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iran 's Supreme Leader whose despotic rule stretched over four decades, met his ...
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MARK ALMOND: Ali Khamenei’s dead hand will remain on Iran's tiller for a while yet. Civil war could be coming

It is thought that Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iran 's Supreme Leader whose despotic rule stretched over four decades, met his 'martyrdom', as state media have it, in the rubble of his Tehran compound.

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was a staunch hardliner who mastered the art of playing his enemies off each other

A conservative Islamic scholar with a head for politics, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei succeeded his mentor in the wake of the Iran-Iraq War — and consolidated his grip on power over ...